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Katherine
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Topic: Please review our forum rules Posted: 15 July 2010 at 9:33am |
Dear members,
Our forum rules have recently been updated to clarify some recent concerns. Please take a moment to review the forum rules here:
http://www.ohbaby.co.nz/Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13912&PN=1&TPN=1
Thank you for being a valued part of the OHbaby! Community, and happy chatting!
The OHbaby! Team
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Bizzy
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 10:47am |
woah!!!! hows that for clarification!
Absolutely NO solicitation, advertising, or promotion of your products or services, private sales or auction listings are permitted. This includes, but is not limited to, advertising or promoting someone else's business, asking for interest in a business idea, and posting links to surveys and competitions on other websites. We reserve the right to remove posts that contravene these guidelines without notification or discussion. We have a wonderful advertising package available to mums with businesses who wish to promote themselves in our Directory.
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 10:53am |
oops , I've broken that singing rule a few times on here ....
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 11:04am |
ummm kelly you big rule breaking rebel!
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JessDub
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 11:10am |
Fair enough. If I were a paying advertiser I'd expect some guidelines like that.
As it is, I use this forum for free and find it really helpful - and some lovely ladies responding to my questions - most of the time.
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 12:33pm |
Hmm, half the questions I ask involve asking "does anyone know of a good...Blah Blah?". Or recommending certain brands of wipes etc for sensitive skin which as a parent of children with severe eczema I know it's hard to find that info. So is that not allowed now? Or what about statements like "I prefer sleepsuits to gowns"? Or I went to BlahBlah movie & it was crap?
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 12:36pm |
Dear OhBaby Team,
Thank you - that is certainly enlightening
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 12:48pm |
tictacjunkie wrote:
Hmm, half the questions I ask involve asking "does anyone know of a good...Blah Blah?". Or recommending certain brands of wipes etc for sensitive skin which as a parent of children with severe eczema I know it's hard to find that info. So is that not allowed now? Or what about statements like "I prefer sleepsuits to gowns"? Or I went to BlahBlah movie & it was crap? |
Thank you for bringing this up. There is a pretty clear difference between someone posting something like, for example, "My sister has opened a new baby shop in Wellington named XYZ, go check it out!" and something like, "Can you recommend some good baby shops in Wellington?" Product reviews should be posted in our Product Review boards, but in general, recommendations -- as long as they are genuine personal opinions -- are not frowned upon.
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 1:07pm |
Ok thank you, =)
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 1:12pm |
tictacjunkie, I'd love to know -- are you really a Tic Tac junkie? Because the orange ones are my favourite.
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 1:44pm |
Lol, I sort of was when I had morning sickness, I found sucking on them while grocery shopping, nappy-changing etc masks those smells you become so sensitive to & made them slightly more bearable.
edited to make sense!
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 2:27pm |
I love the orange tic tacs too!
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 2:28pm |
So if someone wants to sell their old nappies like they have done so via the nappy thread, this is a no-go now??
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 2:56pm |
It has been for quite a while AandCsMum, people have just been doing it anyway.
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 4:27pm |
Wow so no sharing recipes from cookbooks?
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 4:45pm |
AandCsmum wrote:
So if someone wants to sell their old nappies like they have done so via the nappy thread, this is a no-go now?? |
emz is right, AandCsmum -- this isn't permitted and hasn't been for quite a while now, and is something we'll be looking into a bit more closely from now on. I hear of people having great success with selling nappies on Trade Me, though!
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 4:48pm |
Hannahbil wrote:
Wow so no sharing recipes from cookbooks? |
Hi Hannahbil, this comes under the heading of "copyright infringement". Unfortunately anything that appears in print and is copyrighted is not permitted to be reproduced without the publisher's permission, or we (OHbaby,as well as the poster of the copyrighted material, can face legal action. This isn't a rule that's unique to OHbaby! -- it's the case for any message board, anywhere.
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 6:00pm |
Thanks Katherine. Can you clarify the rules against someone starting a thread asking for others to pitch in on a photo session? I have asked but no-one has answered me.
There has been instances where people have started threads, without any links to my website at all, and they have been removed.. yet others stand. Mine were the only ones that got removed... and all I have been told was that it was just "weird" that they got removed...
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 6:01pm |
Katherine wrote:
this comes under the heading of "copyright infringement". Unfortunately anything that appears in print and is copyrighted is not permitted to be reproduced without the publisher's permission, or we (OHbaby,as well as the poster of the copyrighted material, can face legal action. This isn't a rule that's unique to OHbaby! -- it's the case for any message board, anywhere. |
I am a member of many message boards/public websites and this is the first one to mention it in such a detailed manor or that is working so hard on deleting posts...as most of them just have a "we take no responsibility for other people's actions-clause" They tell you what they expect but would never go this far.
Maybe if the source has a complaint...but they would wait for that first...
and if people mention the author/source all should be fine anyway
the quoting of song lyrics is not included in the copyright laws and please tell me what artist would
1 not be stoked to have their lyrics quoted
2 would ever file a lawsuit against somebody that would quote their lyrics on a site like this?
if somebody would claim the lyrics as their own...yes then maybe...
Sorry...I think you just want to keep your site nice, correct and perfect but in my opinion you are taking it a bit too far (not as a person but as a site)
I personally feel your comments (as moderators) are often condescending and written in a matter as if you are trying to educate people on how they should act, feel, write, think and be... You are dealing with adults that don't need protecting against themselves or the big bad world.
Having written all of this, I'm afraid it will get deleted and I will get booted but I'll risk it....
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Posted: 15 July 2010 at 6:04pm |
You can just quote old songs where the copyright has lapsed, that way you would be ok, otherwise no one would be able to wish anyone else a *appy *irthday (obviously thought I best not flout the rules too much)
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